Jiang Wanwan's household registration has not been completed yet, and she doesn't know why it is so troublesome. She is worried about Lu Xiao's identity and doesn't dare to ask for fear of hurting his self-esteem.
It is now the end of September and the situation is tense, but Jiang Wanwan knows that there will be light at the end of the tunnel in less than a month. Today happens to be the big market, so she goes to take a look.
Lu Xiao gave her a few reminders, which were nothing more than to be careful, not to buy anything too heavy, and to wait until he had time to buy them together. She didn't have any thoughts about spending money today just because he had just given her money yesterday, which once again proved that Lu Xiao was a good man.
The market was three or four kilometers away from the Red Star Brigade, and Jiang Wanwan had to walk there since she didn't have a bicycle.
Most of the items sold at the market are vegetables grown by the family or distributed by the team but not eaten, as well as chickens, ducks, eggs, and duck eggs raised by individuals.
In her previous life, Jiang Wanwan had read some period literature when she was bored. Most of the descriptions of rural markets in that era were black markets, but that was not the case.
Today the market is still very sound, and farmers can freely sell the vegetables they grow and the chickens and ducks they raise, and it is not considered as speculation.
In addition, many households in the village raise pigs.
Nowadays, there are very few chemical fertilizers and pesticides. The fertilizers needed in the fields are mostly organic fertilizers such as pig manure, sacrificial manure, and human feces. The collective encourages everyone to raise pigs.
When the pigs are ready for slaughter, they are sent to the county slaughterhouse, which is also the main source of income for farmers.
But pigs eat grain, and in this era when people can't even get enough to eat, raising pigs has become a luxury.
So more people choose to raise chickens, and even ducks are disliked because they eat too much and are unwilling to raise them.
As for the black market, it does exist.
Before 1986, grain was purchased and sold under unified regulations, and individual transactions were not allowed. If farmers wanted to exchange grain for money, they had to go to the so-called black market.
Of course, you can also buy some items on the black market that don’t require tickets. As for the sources of these items from the sellers, they are also varied. What you can buy depends entirely on luck.
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